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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Hello everyone. Tomorrow at 7pm, Allen Hall is hosting poet Kevin Coval. Coval is a pro-Palestinian, Jewish-American poet who uses his art to analyze tough social, political, and cultural issues. <BR><BR>Please consider attending and please spread the word!<BR>-SJP UIUC<BR>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">BREAKBEAT POETICS </SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Award winning HBO Def Poets //Educators // Hip Hop Artists :: </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">IDRIS GOODWIN + KEVIN COVAL</SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">present a concert of innovative lyricism. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Blurring the lines between spoken word, hip-hop performance, and theatre, Goodwin + Coval are on the forefront of contemporary literature [de]constructing American culture in the Obama age. </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Friday, October 1 </SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">7:00pm<BR>Main Lounge of Allen Hall</SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">, 1005 W. Gregory drive, U </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Free and open to the public </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">About KEVIN <BR><B>“of<I> </I>one of my favorite poets” –Mos<I> </I>Def, actor and emcee </B></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Author of <I>everyday people </I>and <I>slingshots {a hip-hop poetica}</I>, finalist for the<I> </I>American Library Association’s “Book <I>of </I>the Year” :: Educator, four-time HBO DefPoet, and co-founder of “Louder than a<I> </I>Bomb”, the largest youth poetry festival<I> </I>in the world, Coval’s work continues inthe rich tradition of Carl Sandburg &Gwendolyn Brooks. Hailed as the unofficial poet laureate of Chicago, Studs<I> </I>Terkel described Coval as “a new, glowing voice in the world of literature [whose]<I> </I>voice is our hope for a new world of peace, grace, and beauty.” </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">About IDRIS <BR><B>“Goodwin is a writer who bears watching” -Chicago Tribune. </B></SPAN><B><o:p></o:p></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Award-winning playwright, break beat poet, recording artist + hip-hop educator, Idris has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council and feat. on HBO Def Poetry. Chicago’s SGE Records released Idris’ latest hip-hop album BREAK BEAT POEMS praised by Little Village Magazine for its “righteous beats and elliptically clever rhyming”. </SPAN></P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><A href="http://www.kevincoval.com/"><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">www.kevincoval.com</SPAN> </FONT></A></SPAN></DIV></div><br>
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